Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 . l& III. TURNER AND HIS WORKS. 153 from the grotesque, quaint, and crowded for-malism of the early painters; and gave a closeapproximation to the forms of nature in allthings; retaining, however, thus much of theold system, that the distances were for themost part painted in deep ultramarine blue,the foregrounds in rich green and brown;there were no effects of sunshine and shadow,but a generally quiet glow over the wholescene; and the clouds, though now rolling inirregular masses, and sometimes richly involvedamong
Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 . l& III. TURNER AND HIS WORKS. 153 from the grotesque, quaint, and crowded for-malism of the early painters; and gave a closeapproximation to the forms of nature in allthings; retaining, however, thus much of theold system, that the distances were for themost part painted in deep ultramarine blue,the foregrounds in rich green and brown;there were no effects of sunshine and shadow,but a generally quiet glow over the wholescene; and the clouds, though now rolling inirregular masses, and sometimes richly involvedamong the hills, were never varied in concep-tion, or studied from nature. There were no-changes of weather in them, no rain clouds orfair-weather clouds, nothing but various shapesof the cumulus or cirrus, introduced for thesake of light on the deep blue sky. Tintoretand Bonifazio introduced more natural effectsinto this monotonous landscape: in theirworks we meet with showers of rain, with rain-bows, sunsets, bright reflections in water, and soon; but still very subordinate,
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